The Hebrew word for sunrise is זְרִיחָה, (zuree-chah), which comes from the simple verb לִזְרוֹחַ meaning:
to shine or to rise, when referring to the sun.
The Hebrew word for sunset is הַשְּׁקִיעָה – (shash-kee yah), literally, the setting.
Sunset is termed שְׁקִיעַת הַחַמַּה – the setting of the sun.
שקיעה is the noun form of the verb לִשְׁקוֹעַ, meaning to sink, or to settle in a low place.
Nisan or Nissan, נִיסָן – ni’-san, (nican), in Hebrew has a meaning of renewal – a beginning. Today, new year begins in January but in the Bible, in Torah, it was not that way.
Nisan is the 7th month in the Hebrew Civil calendar and the 1st month in the Torah – spiritual Calendar.
The sign of Nissan is a Lamb.
Strong’s #07716 – Lamb – Seh – שֶׂה – SHIN – HEY – BEHOLD GOD.
In the shamayim/heavens, the sign of the Lamb of God is the heavenly constellation of stars called Aries. Passover was the sign of the Lamb of God in Egypt.
The ram provided to Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah in Israel was the prophetic sign of God providing the future sacrifice for sin and for reconciliation of relationship through Jesus’s/Yeshua’s death on the cross as Redeemer.
Lambs graze in a flock, faithfully following the shepherd.
Being a follower is sometimes a mature choice, not a passive failure. The Israelites made the choice to follow God.
When God created the world, His plan was that we choose to know Him.
The month of Nisan is the 1st month of the spiritual year and in Hebrew, Spring called AVIV.
אביב AVIV, derived from the word abīb, actually translates as the season of SPRING. From the Hebrew word ābhībh literally, ear of grain also meaning an ear, or a time of year where grains come into ear, commonly known as Aviv, (or Nisan, the 1st month of the Hebrew calendar). (Notably seen in Place Names in Israel e.g. Tel Aviv).
After the Babylonian exile, the new name for Abib/Aviv, was Nisan/Nissan. Although this name is technically of Babylonian origin, the Aramaic word Nissan is related to the Hebrew word, nitzan, (נִצָּן) meaning bud. In Song of Songs, King Solomon’s epic poem in which he depicts the love that bonds us to God, redemption is symbolically referred to as “the time that the buds were seen in our land,” which means that the earth gave birth to a people who would soon blossom or flower.
Another derivation is from the word nissim (נִסִּים) meaning miracles, and by definition is the month of miracles. Both of these suggest freshness and renewal physical and spiritual resurrection in our lives.
In Aviv, אביב the first month is NISAN and the 1st Feast/Appointed Time of the Lord is…
Pesach – Passover – פֶּסַח – Pesah, Pesakh.
It is a paradox because although it’s the genesis of the year and the Appointed time of New Beginnings; it is also the time of the end of Messiah’s life, (earthly); and it is also the beginning – genesis – beresheet – בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית – of life (eternal).
The beginning – beresheet – genesis
of the end, ends with the beginning with no end.
It all began – genesis – beresheet – in a garden..גַּן, we know as Eden..עֵדֶן
גַּן עֵדֶן, Gan ʿEḏen
Here in Gan Eden, God formed ha’adam the first אדם adam.
The Hebrew word for earth is adama.
The Hebrew word for man derived from Hebrew אדם adam meaning “to be red“, referring to the ruddy color of human skin, or from Akkadian adamu meaning “to make”
The Garden of Eden was the 1st of 3 specific and important Gardens, the beginning of the end was in a garden
..and the end of the beginning also began in a garden.
in the 3rd and last garden (tomb), was Messiah, the last adam.
The first man, Adam, became a living person, and the last Adam (Christ in the flesh) became a spirit that gives life.1 Cor. 15:45
Our Father planted the very first garden. He is THE Gardener/Vinedresser/Husbandman. John 15:1; I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Strong’s Hebrew. 3755. karam
עברית vinedresser וינדרסר
Vinedresser is just one way to translate the Greek word used by Jesus (Yeshua). It can also mean Gardener, Farmer, and Husbandman (KJV). It is a generic word for someone who tends plants.
Jer.33:15; And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Is 53:2; He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and He is called “the Branch of the Lord“. Is.11:1; Heb.12:24; Zech. 3:8, “I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH, and 6:12; Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH.
A Branch, or the Branches of a tree, are the glory of a tree. Messiah, the Son of man, being the real offspring and son of David according to the flesh, is the glory of all David’s race, and of the whole church of God in general. Matthew 22:45.
My Father is the Husbandman, not simply the ἀμπελουργός, or vinedresser, but also γεωργός, the owner of the land as well.
Jesus is the Word /Yeshua is Torah. He is the Tree of Life/Etz Chaim to all who take hold of Him and eat of Him. The tree of Life in gan Eden whose fruit would give eternal life.
but there is one Biblical place in particular which takes its name from another garden. that of GAT SHMANIM…
This was the garden of Gethsemane – Gatshmanim
Gethsemane, Greek: Γεθσημανή, Gethsemane; Hebrew: Gat Shmanim;
שמנים גת
ים= IM = Yod and (final) Mem.
Below looking up the Kidron Valley towards Gethsemane, Jerusalem is to the left.
Gethsemane is changed into English from two Hebrew words: GAT and SHMANIM. It means ‘the place where olive oil is pressed‘.
A further insight into the Hebrew words GAT and SHMANIM, reveals GAT, as a Hebrew word by itself (Hebrew: גת – gimel, tav), which means a winepress.
SHMANIM – שמנים – means oils, and is the plural IM – ים, of the singular Hebrew word שֶׁמֶן SHEMEN, for oil.
A literal translation of GAT SHMANIM would be winepress of oils.
However, it refers to a pressing-method far more violent than the crushing of grapes underfoot.
This is one Biblical place in particular that takes its name from GAT SHMANIM…
olive – zayit – זית – zah’yeet
Also the symbol of peace, light and longevity together with the dove (יוֹנָה – yona) which brought Noah an olive leaf after the flood, (Genesis 8:11).
Some olive trees have been known to live for more than 2,000 years, maybe even there when Jesus/ Yeshua walked among them.
Pictured below is a replica of a first-century olive press (בֵּית בַּד – beit bahd) in modern day Israel.
The stone weights suspended from the beam likely exert more than 1 ton (2,204 lbs/907 Kilos) of pressure on the olives.
Each one requires multiple people to move.
The shemen gat – meaning: the winepress (gat), of oil (shemen.)
Where His suffering began.
It is located on a slope of the Mount of Olives just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem.
photo above 1890-1900
Here He surrendered His will. In the face of the approaching will of the Father.
Isaiah 53:10-12
The Lord was pleased to bruise him; he has put him to grief [or: caused his pain]; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the pleasure [picking up on the first line] of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
The Father was pleased to bruise the Son for our iniquities, and the Son was pleased to be bruised by the Father’s will. As we heard on Monday, Jesus had a choice. He chose to have the iniquity of us all laid on Him.
The arrest was the beginning –
the genesis – beresheet – בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית
– of the end…of the beginning.
Leviticus 8:10–12; Luke 22:39–44.
The garden was not a garden in our western understanding. It was an olive grove, a place where the olives from the trees that grew there, were made into oil.
Jews would extract this oil by placing sacks of freshly-picked olives underneath a massive, wooden beam which they would pull down using heavy stone weights to crush both olives and their pits with tremendous force.
It was the place of the oil press. The word for oil in Hebrew is Shemen.
The word for Press in Hebrew is GAT. Oil press is a gat shemen, or a gatshmanim.
The olives would be placed on top of the Big Stone and a large ‘wheel like’ stone would roll over them, crushing them.
The crushing of the olives would cause them to release their oil.
So the meaning of Gethsemane is the oil press.
There is a secret in the meaning connected to Yeshua, as the word Messiah is linked to oil, gat;
to Olive oil, to shemen, and it’s no coincidence it is the place where the suffering began – because it was the place of crushing. The olive press, is the place where His crushing began.
First the crushing of His will and then the crushing of His life.
Oil is also linked to healing and joy.
The SON of Righteousness
(and here is BEN the ‘other SUN’..)
1 Yeshua Ben Joseph and
2 Yeshua Ben David
Risen with healing in His wings.
Links below for more on wings.
And to anointing oil which is the most sacred holy (set apart) use. Oil was poured over those set apart ones who were to be prophets priests and kings. This oil in its highest form of symbolism signifies the Holy Spirit being poured out.
The hidden mystery of the gospel was and is now revealed, the crushing of Messiah in the oil press of Gethsemane would be and is linked to joy and healing in the anointing and outpouring of the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh.
In His deathS (Maveth מָוֶת), is Life/liveS (CHAIM)
It began with the oil of the olives crushed in the press, so every desire and ambition not of God, must be surrendered and crushed.
And in the crushing, the set apart, (Holy/ Kodesh), ones will be filled, anointed with oil and released by the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh to fulfil His Will, Plans and Purposes.
Kodashim (Hebrew: קדשים , “Holy Things)
As the disciples slept in the garden,
Jesus/Yeshua poured out His soul to His Father, in agony. Luke writes,
Hematidrosis is the incredibly rare medical phenomenon, where extreme stress causes a person’s skin to release blood in sweat; few humans have ever experienced the levels of stress needed to cause it.
Yet as Jesus/Yeshua prayed,
“My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may Your will be done,”
the unthinkable pressure of the weight of all our sins crushed Messiah,
pressing out His life and blood like olive oil flowing from a press.
GAT SHMANIM could not have been more aptly named!
As the heavy weights hung from the wooden beam of an ancient olive press crushed olives underneath,
the weight of our sins crushed Jesus/Yeshua as He hung upon the wooden beams of the cross.
Jesus/Yeshua’s Blood was poured out for us like olive oil, as
He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. – Isaiah 53:5-6
Yet His blood is worth far more than oil; it is our Salvation,
our hope,
and our light!
Messiah, מָשִׁיחַ = Christ = anointed one = Mashiach, Mah-she-AKH = anointed one.
So the Messiah = the anointed one, just as Christ does. Greek = christos.
Jesus comes from Yeshua. Jesus Christ is Yeshua ha Mashiach or Jesus the Messiah = Jesus the anointed. Anointed = oil. With olive oil.
The apocalypse (revealing) of the mystery of the TAMID – תָּמִיד – taw-meed’
Messiah is the lamb but not only that for He is also our TAMID.
The eastern side of the temple faced the Garden of Gethsemane
it was also the side closest to the location of the altar of sacrifice.
It is sobering to note that every time Yeshua/Jesus was upon the Mt. of Olives in the Garden at Gethsemane He was looking directly at the altar of sacrifice.
Ex. 29:38–39; Mark 15:25–37; Rev. 7:9–17;
the Torah called for two lambs…
Offer one in the morning and the other twilight.
This is called the law of the TAMID.
The Tamid was the name for the morning and evening sacrifice,
the first (Alef) and last (Tav)
that began and ended a series of daily sacrifices for the various sins and offerings of the people.
The Chamber of Lambs Once it has been established that the proper time has come for offering the tamid daily sacrifice, and the gates of the Sanctuary are open, the overseer instructs the priests who will be attending to the service: “Bring a lamb from the Chamber of Lambs!”
The halves of the Tamid were two lambs.
The 1st was offered in the morning at the third hour of the day.
With its death, the temple trumpets would sound and the temple gates were opened.
This was at 9am (the exact time Yeshua/Jesus was crucified and the cross lifted up)
and the 2nd at 3pm (the time Yeshua/Jesus died).
The beginning and end of every day in the Israelite community was marked by the reference to the tamid offering. In other words, at the outset of both the day at sunrise and sunset at night, their thoughts were directed upon God, which in fact was focused on the coming Messiah.
The daytime was divided into 12 seasonal hours, but the day division of hours was focused on the schedule of the Tamid sacrifice.
In the first century AD the night was divided into 4 night watches of 3 hours each:
(1) from sundown to 9PM;
(2) from 9PM to 12 midnight;
(3) from 12 midnight to 3AM; and
(4) from 3AM to dawn.
Tamid תָּמִיד (taw-meed’) Strongs 8548 means: continuity, continual, daily, perpetual, always, all times, forever.
He is our answer every day and forever. Our covering always and for eternity.
Just as the unblemished Tamid lamb was the standing sacrifice presented continually on the altar of sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple, Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is the unblemished Lamb standing before the throne of God in the Temple of the heavens/shamayim.
Just as a lamb’s blood flows at the base of the altar, so too did Messiahs blood flow to the base of the cross.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul (Leviticus 17:11).
Hebrews 10:4 teaches that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.
The very fact that the Bible says the blood of bulls and goats cannot save is solid evidence that Messiah’s blood is 100% required, important and essential for our redemption.
His death alone is insufficient to save anyone. The blood had to be shed and applied to the mercy seat/ kapporet in the Heavens, just as it was required by the High Priest/Kohen HaGadol, in the Old Testament tabernacle/mishkan.
After He died and a Roman soldier thrust a spear through Yeshua/Jesus’ side, piercing both the lungs and the heart, blood and water came from His side just as John recorded in his Gospel (John 19:34).
The spear that was thrust into His side, likely under His ribs,
could have ruptured the pericardial sack,
resulting in a flow of both blood and water.
This to fulfill scripture that of His identification with and healing for the brokenhearted. Also: Sin is passed on through the blood, that is why we say Adam passed the sin on to all.
1Jn 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot….
He reveals to Nicodemus about a spiritual birth and gives an explanation for being born of water, referring to his need for spiritual cleansing. From then on it is possible to be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God. (John 19)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. v. 7-8 KJV
The TAMID Sacrifice
From the Genesis in Gan Eden, later confirmed with the covenant at Sinai; Elohim set apart (made holy), a people who would be a picture for the world, and He taught them that sin could only be redeemed with the shedding of innocent blood.
The WAY to cleanse the wrong choices of those created in His image and likeness yet, a little lower than the angels.
This began the (prophetic) ritual of the Tamid, a lamb for the first and last sacrifice of each day.
The Priests drew lots (PURIM), for various official duties, such as slaying the Tamid, sprinkling its blood, and cleansing the altar and the candlestick; the announcement of the time of slaying the morning sacrifice; the bringing of the sacrificial lamb,
(which was given to drink from a golden cup before it was killed;) and taking it to the place of sacrifice.
This together with the statement, in conformity with
Ezek. 34:2, that no man ever passed through the postern on the southern side of the large door; how the opening of this great portal was heard as far as Jericho, as was the sound of the trumpets and other music of the Temple.
Then at the ninth hour, the evening sacrifice would be offered on the altar; at which time all the sacrifices would finish, the day complete.
At that point there were NO more sacrifices.
Morning lamb -9 AM, the third hour.
The same time Messiah was crucified.
So as the morning lamb was slain on the altar in the temple Messiah the lamb of God was lifted on the altar of the cross.
The trumpets sounded to announce the sacrifice and the temple gates were opened.
The evening lamb was killed at 9, our 3 PM, this is when He died.
His sacrifice began with the a.m. offering of the morning lamb. And ended with the p.m. offering of the evening lamb.
This was the point at which the WAY was RE-opened to God. And all took place during six hours of the temple sacrifices. RE-storation and RE-demption completed.
“But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.” Hebrews 10:12
The Son of the Father, Creator of the morning sunrise and evening sunset
began a six-hour journey In between the two lambs, in between the 2 suns for the 2 Sons, from the first to the last; the lamb of God was the ultimate sacrifice. And because His sacrifice was perfect, it was all in all, every sin and every offering was covered by His Blood.
He’s the one who died for many – the sacrifice for all. Nothing more is needed.
He is the TAMID the Son/sun,(shemesh), of Righteousness that Malachi 4:2 prophesied of the coming Messiah.
He is connected to the sunset and sunrise of that Passover day in the order of evening and morning, of sunset,
when He was to sheqi’ah, sink, or to settle in a low place (the grave).
Then to the sunrise, when on the first day of the week, that resurrection dawning of the Sun,
He rose from the dead and (zarach/ come forth), as the morning came and the sunrise (to shine or to rise). The Son of God arose and shone.
Even from before the genesis in gan eden, the Tamid had a name. He was there at creation, for nothing was made without Him and when the plan was set in motion, He knew what His part would be…. Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus the Messiah, the anointed one,
is our Tamid
Mount of Olives at sunset.
Mount of Olives at sunrise.
From the Genesis/beginning, He revealed/apocalypse, the end/Revelation. For He is the Alef and the Tav – From Gan Eden to Gatshmanim/Gethsemane and to His rising from the GARDEN tomb with the sunrise – זְרִיחָה to shine or to rise,
From long ago He told us things that had not yet happened, saying in essence, “My plan will stand, and I’ll do everything I intended to do.” And history will come full circle at the end of time to reveal Him and His Glory in the universe.
He has released upon us the Ruach Ha Kodesh for setting us apart and anointing us with His oil of gladness.
for HE did provide a Lamb
Hebrew phrase is literally translated as:
“lamb of THE God”.
שה האלוהים
The message for us is this, the only WAY to get into the garden is by going to the garden tomb first. We cannot get to the tomb until you have first gone to the cross by Way of gethsemane’s garden where we willingly give up/surrender our life/chaim. By dying to the old life, and crucifying the flesh life, by losing it and counting our old life as dead and gone.
This is the WAY to the garden of God and all it’s blessings. It’s the WAY/derek of the cross and always leads to life. (Chaim – lives, plural). The paradox and contradiction that death leads to life/chaim is summed up once again, in the fact that life, death and then life, were in the gardens and all had special trees, the end is the beginning, the Genesis, the garden, gan Eden; And here the mystery of the 3 gardens is revealed in Yeshua our Tanim, for He is the WAY of the Lamb, the truth and the CHAIM/ lifes.
Now we have a deeper understanding, this year let’s remember our Tamid at the coming Pesach and allow the fullness of the Son/sunshine to dawn and shine His resurrection glory,
on us,
in us
and through us,
as we celebrate..
Messiah our Tamid is RISEN indeed.
Shalom shalom!
To all mmm Mishpachah – משפחה – Mish-pa-KHa – Family
Have a zisn (Zeesen) Pesach = (Have) a sweet Pesach
a koshern Pesach = (Have) a kosher Pesach
a freylakhn Pesach = (Have) a happy Pesach
To say Happy Passover in Hebrew you literally say holiday passover happy
chag pesach sameach חג פסח שמח
(pronounced) KHAG PAY-sock sah-MEY-akh
Chag = festival (holidays) and is pronounced KHAHG. It’s similar to the English word cog, with the same breathy, raspy sound described below as used for the ch.
Happy = sah-MEY-akh.” Use a hard “k” sound with a raspy quality from the back of the throat. Don’t use an English “ch” sound use raspy kh sound also for PAY-sock in Pesach/Passover.
Please Do Not leave this page without the surety in your heart that you have Messiah our Tamid in your life and heart as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age..
NOT CERTAIN?
YOU CAN BE..
Make sure Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
Its all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are greatly loved and very precious in His sight.
He longs to give you the Shalom He paid the ultimate price for..
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
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